Marjorie Darrah
409C Armstrong Hall
Bio:
Dr. Marjorie Darrah is Professor of Mathematics at WVU. She has 25 years experience teaching at the university level, and has led three National Science Foundation projects connecting students and teachers to cutting edge technology and making a smooth pathway to IT careers. She also had funding from the US Department of Education, SBIR program to develop new products incorporating haptic touch technology that allows a person to touch and interact with a virtual object.
Her research also includes the development and implementation of
biologically inspired algorithms (Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic
Algorithms). She has been involved in the development, implementation and field
testing of genetic algorithms that coordinate missions using multiple unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs). In this area she has had funding from both Army
Research Labs and Air Force Research Labs. She is currently working on a NASA
project using Neural Networks to do health monitoring of UAV systems to avoid
system degradation or failure. She was
named on a patent for this system INTELLIGENT ELECTRONIC SPEED
CONTROLLER (IESC), Publication number: 20180307231. She has
also conducted over 20 project evaluations, specializing in evaluation of
educational technologies and educational programs.
Before coming to WVU, she was the Director of the Computer
Sciences Group for the West Virginia High Technology Consortium Foundation and
also taught ten years at Alderson Broaddus College, where she served at the
Chair of the Natural Sciences Division.
Education:
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY
1995 PH. D. MATHEMATICS
1991 M.S. MATHEMATICS
Graduated summa cum laude
FAIRMONT STATE COLLEGE
1989 B.S. MATHEMATICS
1988 B.A. Education,
Comprehensive Mathematics 7-12
Graduated summa cum laude
Courses offered at WVU:
- Math 150 Applied Calculus
- Math 153/154 Calculus with PreCalculus
- Math 375 Applied Modern Algebra
- Math 283 Introduction to Concepts of Mathematics
- Math 593 Neural Network RuleExtraction
Research Interests:
- Artificial Neural Networks
- Neural Network Rule Extraction and Rule Insertion
- Genetic Algorithms
- Haptic Technology for Education
- Program and Project Evaluation
Recent Publications:
Darrah, M., Sorton, E., Wathen,
M. and Mera Trujillo, M. (2016). Real-time Tasking and
Retasking of Multiple Coordinated
UAVs. Defense Systems Information
Analysis Center Journal, 3(4) pp. 21-26.
Rahem, M. A., Darrah, M. (2018).
Using a Computational Approach for Generalizing
a Consensus Measure to Likert Scales of Any
Size n. International Journal of
Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences. Volume 2018, Article ID 5726436. https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/5726436
Darrah, M., Rubenstein, A.,
Sorton, E. and DeRoos, B. (2018). On-board Health-state Awareness to Detect Degradation in
Multirotor Systems. In Proceedings of
2018 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Dallas, TX, USA,
2018.
Elsarrar, O., Darrah, M. and
Devin, C. (2019). Analysis of Forest Fire Data using Neural Network Rule Extraction with Human
Understandable Rules. In Proceedings of
IEEE/ICMLA 18th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, Boca
Raton, FL, USA, 2019.
Darrah, M., Trujillo, M. M.,
Speransky, K. and Wathen, M. (2017). Optimized 3D mapping of a large area with structures
using multiple multirotors. In Proceedings
of 2017
International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS),
Miami, FL, USA, 2017,pp. 716-722. doi:
10.1109/ICUAS.2017.7991414